AWS announced the release of Elastic MapReduce (EMR) 5.0.0 today, which includes among other things support for 16 open source Hadoop projects. As AWS continues to hone its various tools to help customers manage a myriad of enterprise functions in the cloud, this latest one is aimed at data scientists and other interested parties looking to…

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